Biography

After a childhood discovering the wilderness of Canada's West Coast, I studied Environmental Biology at the University of British Columbia. I then began my MSc in Zoology at the University of Guelph where I studied the winter ecology of Cassin’s Auklets, a Pacific seabird species that has declined by 80% since the 1970s. I am excited to be starting my PhD at the University of Cambridge in the Behavioural Ecology Group. My research will focus on the causes of population declines in Palearctic-African migratory bird species that travel between their wintering grounds in sub-Saharan Africa and breeding grounds in Europe and Asia.